Git and GitHub Cheat Sheet

About 99% of the commands you’ll type in git are summarized in the table below:

Functionality

Git Command

See active branch and uncommitted changes for tracked files

git status -uno

Change branch

git checkout <branch name>

Create new branch and change to it

git checkout -b <new branch name>

Track file or latest changes to file

git add <filename>

Commit changes to branch

git commit -m "message describing changes"

Push committed changes to remote branch

git push origin <branch name>

Merge changes from master into development branch

(change working branch to master, then…) git merge <branch name>

Merge changes from development branch into master

(change to development branch, then…) git merge master

List current tags

git tag

Create a new tag

git tag -a v<version number> -m "message with new tag"

Pull changes from remote repo onto local machine

git fetch upstream

Merge changes from remote into active local branch

git merge upstream/<branch name>

Clone a remote repository

git clone <url to remote repo>
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